Is this, or is this not a wood lathe?

[Odie]

I was browsing eBay and ran across this lathe. It's listed as a metal lathe, but everything about it says to me that it's a wood lathe. Am I wrong?

Any guesses as to the age?

(Note: I don't intend to bid on it, so feel free...I think it's very cool but I just don't have anywhere to put it!)

Antique Goodell Pratt Small Benchtop Metal Lathe 3" x 10” Missing The Badge | eBay

Antique Goodell Pratt Small Benchtop Metal Lathe 3" x 10” Missing The Badge. The lathe needs cleaning and painting. All parts moving but the will move better when cleaned. Measuring 29” wd by 11 1/2” ht . Bases are 5” diameter. 40 pounds heavy

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[Brian Gustin]

I was browsing eBay and ran across this lathe. It's listed as a metal lathe, but everything about it says to me that it's a wood lathe. Am I wrong?

Any guesses as to the age?

(Note: I don't intend to bid on it, so feel free...I think it's very cool but I just don't have anywhere to put it!)

Antique Goodell Pratt Small Benchtop Metal Lathe 3" x 10” Missing The Badge | eBay

Antique Goodell Pratt Small Benchtop Metal Lathe 3" x 10” Missing The Badge. The lathe needs cleaning and painting. All parts moving but the will move better when cleaned. Measuring 29” wd by 11 1/2” ht . Bases are 5” diameter. 40 pounds heavy

www.ebay.com

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Well, it's made of metal, so it's a metal lathe? Looks to me like a patternmaker lathe without cross slide...

 

[William Rogers]

I would say wood lathe. has a prong drive in the headstock and has a wood lathe tool rest. I’m not bidding either.

 

[John Torchick]

I agree with William Rogers. No place to put it.

 

[Jerry Bennett]

It is not a metal lathe.

 

[john lucas]

It's a jewelers lathe.

 

[Curt Fuller]

It's a metal wood lathe ;-)

 

[Dennis J Gooding]

This lathe is roughly similar to one I had about 62 years ago. I wanted to build a cobbler"s bench type of coffee table for the family room of my new house. The design that I liked required two turned pedestals to connect the base to the table top. I looked around and found an ad on the back cover of a popular mechanics magazine for a small lathe for $12.98 plus shipping. I ordered it and bought a1/4 HP motor for about $20, and a set of craftsman turning tools. I assembled the system, laminated some pine 2x4's and turned two 16H x 7D pedestals for the table.
The lathe sat unused for about 32 years until I retired and moved to a new house in Oregon. After a couple of years I became bored and hauled out the old lathe and began playing with it again. I made several small items and got hooked. This led to a succession of larger lathes ending with a Oneway 2432.

 

[Odie]

I think its main purpose is to be a spindle turning wood lathe....

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[Richard Coers]

t’s a tiny bench top wood turning lathe. Goodell Pratt made little “parlor” sized machines. Like treadle lathes, and treadle scroll saws. There wasn’t much of a DIY industry in those days, people didn’t have spare time. I have the treadle version of that machine, and also the scroll saw attachment. Of course hat is not the original pulley, they usually used a leather belt.

 

[Bruce Whitaker]

Goodwill Pratt called it an “Amature Bench Lathe” and simply a “Bench Lathe.” The headstock could be had as a “polishing head.” Accessories like a scroll chuck and a sliding tool rest were available. A jeweler’s lathe would be a more accurate and less robust lathe than this. An antique jeweler’s lathe of the same period would likely have only one mounting foot to the bench.